NFC Championship Game

So, yesterday I worked my last Bears game of the season, and what a great game it was! The day was full of exciting celebrity sightings. My first sighting occurred about two hours before the game. Those of us who are dessert cart attendants and help out with the Cadillac club buffet were sitting around waiting for our kick of meeting when one of the security guard girls walks by and is all "Ohhh, girls.... Chris Daughtry from American Idol is on the field right now. He's going to sing the national anthem", so like a couple of fan girls we ran outside to hear the sound check. We couldn't see Chris too well, but the sound check was nice to hear. My second sighting came about two hours later. I was serving soup at the buffet when I saw a group of young adults who looked like me like a bunch of punks. They entered the buffet area from a side entrance and were followed by stadium security so I was thinking "Poor kids. I bet the security guards think they may cause trouble so they are following them around." Then I started thinking "What are these kids doing here? Why are they just standing there? Did they even pay the $50 per plate fee for the buffet?" At one point one of the punks came up to me and asked for a bowl of soup. I was thinking I should ask "Um, are you even supposed to be here?", but decided against it. A few minutes later, I noticed one of the punks was wearing a purple tag that said 'Entrainment' so I called him over and asked "What type of entertainment are you?" and he was all "We're the halftime show," and I was all "Who are you?", and he was all "Fall Out Boy," and I turned into the biggest babbling fan. I mean, I don't even really know this group, but I have heard their songs, so I was in awe when I met them. Teoskii, the cook I was working with, took a picture with their manager. The manager was all "Dude. I'm not in the band," But Teoskii didn't care. The manager was famous by association.

After working the buffet, I went down to the kitchen to get my dessert cart and then we were on our way to the suites. After working for about an hour, I took a break and went down to the pantry to take a quick lunch. While down there, I heard a list of celebs who were at the game: Jim Bilushi, Kevin Costner, Barak Obama, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. It got to the point where you could name any celeb and people would believe the celeb was really there. Shortly thereafter, me and my fellow desert cart girls finished visiting all our assigned suites and headed back down to the kitchen. While cleaning off our carts in the kitchen, other desert cart girls talked about which celebs they saw and which suites those celebs were sitting in. Once my cart was completely clean, my fellow cart attendant and I decided to go celebrity stalking. We took the elevator to the B level and shortly after stepping onto the floor we run into Michelle and Barak Obama. Michelle smiled at us and Barak was all “Hello ladies” with a big grin on his face. We later saw Michelle and Barak while they were on the elevator heading down from the suites. After seeing the Obamas for the second time, we went down to the SS level to look for Jamie Foxx since rumor had it that he was hanging out there. Turns out our sources were mistaken.

At this point, there are about 2 minutes left in the game, and it dawns on me that the people who work in my group have access to any public area in the stadium with our employee ID badges. My fellow desert cart attendant and I went out to the 300 level ticket holders seating area to watch the remainder of the game and the trophy ceremony. That was my first live NFL experience, and it was pretty awesome.